McCauley Potter Fain Associates respects the right to privacy of all visitors to his website (mccauleypotterfain.com domain, “Website”), and is committed to protecting your privacy as you use the valuable information and services we offer here. This Website Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share information about you, and how you can limit the information we collect. By using this Website, you agree to accept the terms, conditions, and practices described in this Website Privacy Policy, and this Website’s Terms of Use and Disclaimer.

General Information We Collect and Share

We use various 3rd Party Services to provide features on our Website that may be of value to you and to collect general information about your website visit. The information we collect is used to help us improve our Website to provide better service to you. We do not collect any personally identifiable information about you unless you choose to provide that information when using these services. A complete list of the 3rd Party Services we use, why we use them, and what information we provide about you to them is included in this Website Privacy Policy and addressed in more detail below. We also provide an easy way for you to send us comments or questions in certain areas of the Website, such as our Contact page. We will share the information you send with professionals who may be able to address your comment or question. We do not sell or unethically share any information about visitors to this site.

3rd Party Services

Each of the 3rd Party Services used by McCauley Potter Fain Associates‘s Website may have their own privacy policies and terms of use that you are agreeing to by choosing to use the services. Some of these services are embedded within the Website and others are accessed by links from the Website. In some cases you may register for an account with these services and you will have a profile that you can manage to limit sharing and interactions with their services. 3rd Party Services currently used on McCauley Potter Fain Associates‘s Website include:

MailJet: This service is used when you subscribe to a blog or request to receive a newsletter by email. You provide your email address to us. We pass your email address to MailJet along with information about your request. MailJet periodically sends you the requested information on our behalf. MailJet is not allowed to use the email addresses we send them for any purpose other than to deliver the information you request. All emails sent to you will contain information about how you can discontinue receiving similar messages in the future.

ShareThis: This service allows you to share pages from our Website through your personal email or social media accounts such as Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin. You must have an account with these websites and log in to share. We do not pass any information about you to them.

Google Maps: We use this service to display graphic maps of office locations and directions. We do not pass any information about you to them.

IP Geolocation: We use this service to locate your general proximity, based on your IP address, to our services. This allows us to more prominently feature on our Website certain location-based information. We pass your device’s IP address to our server IP Geolocation service. The service returns to us your Internet Service Provider (ISP), and your ISP’s country, city, zip code, and latitude/longitude.

Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager: These services allow us to capture information about your web browsing device (IP address, operating system, browser version), how you came to our Website (IP address of the referring website, words used in a public search engine), and how you use our Website (date/time, words you type in our search engine, and what pages you have viewed). We aggregate the information we collect from all our Website visitors and use it to improve the performance and usefulness of our Website. Google may have placed cookies on your device if you have visited their websites, such as the Google.com search service. Google can combine information they have collected on their websites with the information gathered from our Website to tailor information they show you when using their services.

How You Can Limit Sharing of Information

Several of the 3rd Party Services and other websites we use and link to either allow or require you to register for an account and log in to their service in order to use that feature on our Website. When you register for an account with these services, you will have a personal profile that may allow you to limit how they share or use your information. Please refer to the privacy policies and terms of these services for more information. You may also limit sharing by not using these features on our site.

How We Use Cookies

We may place a temporary file called a “cookie” in the storage area used by your web browser when you visit our Website. This cookie will expire when you close your web browser. The cookie does not contain personally identifiable information about you. We use it to track your path through our Website which we use in combination with other information we collect described in this policy to improve the performance and usefulness of our Website. You may limit our ability to place the cookie by adjusting the security controls in your web browser, however some features of our Website may not work properly for you.

Website Privacy Policy Revisions

We may revise our Website Privacy Policy periodically as we add new features or as laws change that may affect our services. Our most current Website Privacy Policy will be available on our Website, including the date it was last updated. We encourage you to periodically reread this Website Privacy Policy to see if there have been any changes that may affect you.

Questions and Contacts

If you have any questions or concerns about the policies, practices, or terms in our Website Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, or Disclaimer, you may contact McCauley Potter Fain Associates by telephone at 503.644.4939, by sending an email message to jhamilton@mpfassociates.com, or by contacting us through U.S. mail at: